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After 10+ years of using Macs with OS 5,6,7,8 and 9, my 80+ year old aunt just switched from Mac-OS 9 to a new Mac-OS/X system. She decided to keep her old one-button mouse. But the behavior of that mouse under OS/X is very different than it was for her under older OSes.
Evidently in OS9, you could click very slowly, push down the button, wait a large part of a second, and then release, and it was just treated like a simple single click. In OS/X, if you do that, you may or may not get the behavior of a left click, but you will definitely get a context menu (which is normally right click behavior, I think).
So, she clicks slowly, just as she has done for over 10 years, and now instead of getting the intended behavior, she gets a context menu, that usually does something VERY different than what she wanted.
I want to find a way to get rid of the appearance of that context menu, and have it just behave like a slow left click, just like her OS/9 did. Is there a way?
I figure it's probably some sort of timer. If you hold down the mouse for more than so-many milliseconds, it brings up a context menu.. If I could raise that number of milliseconds, to (say) 10,000 or 20,000, that would probably solve the problem. Is there a way?
I talked her into giving up her old os/9 box and switching to OS/X so she could use more modern versions of Word and browsers. I figured she'd have a little trouble adjusting to slightly different menus and program behaviors, and the dock. I never dreamed she'd be unable to do simple single clicks with OS/X. Now she's unhappy with me. Help!
Evidently in OS9, you could click very slowly, push down the button, wait a large part of a second, and then release, and it was just treated like a simple single click. In OS/X, if you do that, you may or may not get the behavior of a left click, but you will definitely get a context menu (which is normally right click behavior, I think).
So, she clicks slowly, just as she has done for over 10 years, and now instead of getting the intended behavior, she gets a context menu, that usually does something VERY different than what she wanted.
I want to find a way to get rid of the appearance of that context menu, and have it just behave like a slow left click, just like her OS/9 did. Is there a way?
I figure it's probably some sort of timer. If you hold down the mouse for more than so-many milliseconds, it brings up a context menu.. If I could raise that number of milliseconds, to (say) 10,000 or 20,000, that would probably solve the problem. Is there a way?
I talked her into giving up her old os/9 box and switching to OS/X so she could use more modern versions of Word and browsers. I figured she'd have a little trouble adjusting to slightly different menus and program behaviors, and the dock. I never dreamed she'd be unable to do simple single clicks with OS/X. Now she's unhappy with me. Help!